Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas

by John Adair

Overview

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation?

Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member.

Leadership for Innovation will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749460112
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	02/03/2009
Series:	The John Adair Leadership Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Adair is the world's leading authority on leadership and leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the Action-Centred Leadership programmes he pioneered, and he advises many organizations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. John is the author of over 50 books, including the leadership classic Not Bosses But Leaders, (also published by Kogan Page), and he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his vision of leadership.

John Adair is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises many organisations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. An effective speaker with a valuable message, he is one of the very few figures in recent years to have transformed the debate as to what effective leadership is all about.

John Adair has recently been made United Nations Chair of Strategic Leadership. Based in Turin, he has launched a strategic leadership programme in association with the UN. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award and China has made him its first Honorary Professor of Leadership. The author of over 50 books, now in 25 languages, on leadership and management development, he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his timeless and timely vision of leadership.

Table of Contents

• • Chapter - 01: What is Innovation?;
  • Chapter - 02: The Conditions for Successful Innovation;
  • Chapter - 03: Organizing for Team Creativity;
  • Chapter - 04: Case Study. The DNA Laboratory;
  • Chapter - 05: Case Study. Soichiro Honda – Leader for Innovation;
  • Chapter - 06: Real Commitment from the Top;
  • Chapter - 07: How to Motivate the Creative Individual;
  • Chapter - 08: Team Creativity;
  • Chapter - 09: Harvesting Ideas;
  • Chapter - 10: Overcoming Resistance to Change